Argentina

El Eternauta (The Eternaut) is the protagonist of the series of the same name created by the Argentine writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld (1919-1978?). This work is unanimously considered to be the best Argentine comic of all time. The first story of El Eternauta was published in weekly installments in Hora Cero magazine between September [...]

Considered one of South America’s greatest comic writers, Héctor Germán Oesterheld (Buenos Aires, 1919 – Mar del Plata, 1978?) wrote and redefined a number of highly diverse genres, ranging from tales of adventure and war to science fiction, detective, and western stories. He worked with some of the best cartoon artists of his time, [...]

One of the most acclaimed Argentinian comics, Inodoro Pereyra, el renegau [the renegade] is a powerful parody of the gaucho literature tradition of the region. Created by the Argentinian comic artist Roberto “Negro” Fontanarrosa (1944-2007), the comic strip first appeared in 1972 in Hortensia, a humor magazine published in Cordoba, one of the largest [...]

Perhaps the best-known comic strip of Latin American origin in the world, Mafalda is a character initially created by Joaquín Salvador Lavado, better known as Quino, as part of a failed marketing campaign. From 1964 to 1973, Quino published it in a variety of media: the weekly magazine Primera Plana, the newspaper El Mundo, [...]

Mort Cinder is the protagonist of the homonymous series created by Argentine author Héctor Germán Oesterheld (1919-1978) and Uruguayan artist Alberto Breccia (1919-1993). It was published weekly in the Argentine periodical Misterix from July of 1962 to March of 1964. Afterwards, in the seventies, it was published with great success in Spain, France, and Italy. [...]

Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, better known as Quino, is one of the most celebrated graphic humorists in the Spanish-speaking world as well as in many countries where his works have been translated. He has been awarded numerous distinctions, such as the Cartoonist of the Year (1982), the French Legion of Honor (2014) and the [...]